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Them as ladles their wits oot o' other foak's brains gits nobbut middlin sarved." "You don't seem to miss Mr. Hubert very much?" said Laura, with a laughing look. Daffady scratched his head. "Noa they say he's doin wonnerfu well, deaen i' Froswick, an I'm juist glad on 't; for he wasna yan for work." "Why, Daffady, they say now he's killing himself with work!" Daffady grinned a cautious grin.
'Then there's nowt to say, she said, rising, sullen in the first moment of pain. 'But you'll tell me why you have asked? he begged; 'I am very sorry indeed that I cannot answer. 'Noä, I'll not tell ye, fur it's no concern o' yours; but thank ye kindly, sir, all the same. Yer an honest man. Good-day.
"Shall I relieve you of your gun?" "Thank ye, lad noa. It's moor coomfortable wi' me, and it's main dangersome to handle on the half-cock. That's why I didn't leave 'im on the horse outside!" At the sound of his voice and occasional accent a flash of intelligence relieved the editor's mind.
Noa was not angry at the Prince, rather he was proud of his notice, but a sinister light burned in his eyes as he saw the flushed face and drooping head of the girl. And once the Prince passed by the punghulo's home on his way into the jungle in search of a tiger, and inquired for his daughter.
Up the bamboo ladder and into the little door, so low that even Anak, with her scant twelve years, was forced to stoop, she would dart when she espied Noa coming sedately down the long aisle of palms that led away to the fungus-covered canal that separated her little world from the life of the capital city.
"Noa," Bill said, "never so much as dream't o't, but now I thinks it over, it be loikely enoo'. I often thought what wonderful luck it were as he gave me that 'ere bottle o' old Tom, and made me as drunk as a loord joost at th' roight time, and I ha' thought it were curious too, seeing as never before or since has he giv'd me a bottle o' liquor, but now it all comes natural enough.
It's low, mum, says I,'is rats, but it's t' nature of a dog; an' soa's cuttin' round an' meetin' another dog or two an' passin' t' time o' day. an' hevvin' a bit of a turn-up wi' him like a Christian. So she says her dog maunt niver fight an' noa Christians iver fought.
Anak was in the crowd with her father, the old chief, and her affianced, Noa. She had put on her silk sarong and kabaya, and some curious gold brooches that were her mother's. In her coal-black hair she had stuck some sprays of the sweet-smelling chumpaka flower. On her slender bare feet were sandals cunningly wrought in colored beads.
Now, my son, ee comes in at neet all slamp and downcast, an I says to 'im, 'Is there noa news yet o' the Jint Committee, John? I ses to un. 'Noa, mither, ee says, 'they're just keepin ov it on. An ee do seem so down'earted when ee sees the poor soart ov a supper as is aw I can gie un to 'is stomach. Now, I'm wun o' thoase as wants nuthin.
Despite all his Eton finery, he was familiar with peasants, and had the quick eye of one country-born as to country matters. "You don't seem very well off in this village, my man?" said he, knowingly. "Noa; there be a deal of distress here in the winter time, and summer too, for that matter; and the parish ben't much help to a single man."
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